I love my Cree language intensely, but I also love the other indigenous languages we have the luck to be gifted with.  With that in mind, I want to also share links to other languages.

• Tussalanga: Learn Inuit

- this online language platform offers you lessons in 5 Inuit dialects.  I’m still checking it out, but I’m loving the audio files and conversational lessons!

• Episodes of the Berenstain Bears…in Lakota!

Ever cool!  I have long wished we could have something similar in Cree!

• Ojibwemowin

-  This is Ojibwe from Manitoulin and is comprised mostly of word lists.  There is no audio, however and the organisation of the pages is a little confusing.  However, there are quiz functions.

• Online Ojibwe Dictionary

- new as of April 2, 2012!  Beautiful lay-out, very accessible, this is a project years in the making and it’s very exciting to see it up and running!

• First Voices

- this platform is not always completely stable, and right now there are very few Cree entries, but it’s a positive step forward.

• Nish Tales

-there are stories you can listen to in Anishinaabemowin, as well as short video clips.  Stories about Nanabush are being added to the site incorporating bilingual video and audio content.  Very much a work in progress.

• Ojibwe online dictionary

- a great online dictionary which breaks down the words for you and often links to other resources, including audio recordings of the words and some conjugations!

• Ciimaan

- Ciimaan is an Anishinaabemowin language community operating out of Toronto and surrounding areas.  It is a wide-ranging project which includes the collection and storage of stories and wisdom from fluent speakers as well as providing immersion language opportunities.  Eventually the tehsopitaasowin (community storage) project will be available online.  The piitaapan page offers narrated stories in Anishinaabemowin where the words are also shown in syllabics and one of the double-vowel spellings used by Anishinaabek.

I have heard many good things about this project because of its ability to link urban natives to the communities, and because it promotes a bi-lingual approach to language and life which I think is something we cannot really do without anymore.

• Dogrib Dictionary (with audio)

• Mi’gmaq Dictionary (with audio)
• About Our Land: Mi’gmaq

• Salish to English Dictionary (PDF)

• Inuktitut Dictionary (with audio)
• Nunavut Bilingual Education Society

- there are bilingual books to be ordered, even a bilingual kids magazine you can get!  Oh I’d love this in Cree!

• First Nations Language Preservation Project

- this site offers a Robert Munch book translated into Hul’q'umi’num, a Coast Salish language.  You have to register in able to access the book, but it is a simple process and a wonderful audio/visual resource.

• Inuvialuit Place Names

- I taught for three years in Inuvik, and so I have a special place in my heart for the Inuvialuit.  This is a very cool digital journey.

• Bibliographies of aboriginal language resources from NWT

- all the other bibliographies of resources published in aboriginal languages in the NWT can be found here.

• Syllabic keyboard layouts
• Syllabic fonts

Interactive Australian Indigenous Language Map